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Censorship? We're
Just Fighting Back

Updated June 14, 2000 12:06 a.m. ET

In his June 5 editorial-page piece "You May Hate Dr. Laura, But Don't Try to Censor Her ," Harry Stein says Laura Schlessinger is "literally accurate" in labeling homosexuality a deviancy since, as he maintains, being gay is not the "norm" and is also proscribed in scripture. The Bible is not infallible, because it was written by men who may have been inspired by God, but were still very much human. If the Bible is to be taken literally and never re-interpreted over time, does this mean we should go back to condoning slavery and the repression of women? These practices were considered so-called...